INADEH and MIDES sign an agreement to combat poverty through vocational training.

In the presence of the President of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, who participated as an honorary witness, the National Institute of Professional Training and Training for Human Development (INADEH) and the Ministry of Social Development (MIDES) signed a framework agreement of cooperation and technical assistance for people living in extreme and multidimensional poverty to improve their income-generating capacities, through learning a trade that allows them to enter the labor market or start their own business.

With the signing of this agreement, by the head of MIDES, María Inés Castillo and the Director General of INADEH, Virgilio Sousa Valdés, Panamanians who benefit from the conditional cash transfer programs will receive training, technical assistance and transfer of assets productive activities to generate capacities at the local level, promoting social capital and productive inclusion in a sustainable way within their communities.

This strategy, in which INADEH in alliance with MIDES will combat poverty and inequality in Panama, seeks to promote technical and professional training in all regions of the country, mainly in those townships that are within the Colmena Plan where it is strengthening human and productive capacities through training actions that are generating spaces for citizen participation, productive inclusion and territorial development, said Sousa Valdés.

“With MIDES, INADEH works successfully in the articulation of the Colmena Plan. Thanks to this inter-institutional work, hundreds of Panamanians from communities such as El Cacao, in Capira, Menchaca, in Ocú Herrera, Guabito, in Bocas del Toro and many other townships have transformed their lives once the courses have finished, ”he said.

For her part, the MIDES minister pointed out that through the technical education provided by INADEH, people with limited economic resources will be able to generate their own income and raise their families.

The signing of this agreement was carried out in the Community Work Tour that the President made in circuit 8-8 in which the INADEH delivered certificates to participants who completed courses in Heavy Equipment Operator, Clerk, First Aid, English and Industrial Safety and Professional Risk